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November 30, 2014

Smithsonian Magazine has named Seventh-day Adventist co-founder and author Ellen G. White among the 100 Most Significant Americans of All Time.

Smithsonian's list is based on the work of computer scientists Steven Skiena and Charles B. Ward, who analyzed massive troves of historical reputation data that derives from the English-language Wikipedia (which hosts over 840,000 pages devoted to individuals from all times and places) and from the more than 15 million books Google has scanned.

Charlie Cook. one of the most respected political experts in the country believes Hillary Clinton has only a 25-30 percent chance of running for president, and in any case he thinks she is either “rusty” or “she has lost her fastball.” He bases that on her disastrous book tour, in which she said some very inappropriate things and also did not sell many books.

Cook also did not give Jeb Bush much of a chance of gaining the Republican nomination.

Jeb Bush - Hillary Clinton

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Cook explained why Obama is so unpopular.

First, the president spent his first 18 months in office passing the Affordable Care Act, while most Americans wanted to focus on the economy.

Then, when the economy recovered, the people did not give credit to Obama, presumably because they perceived him as only interested in health care.

Cook also pointed out that Obama has no best friend on Capitol Hill, and relies on the advice of just three or four individuals who are close to him and is aloof and disengaged.

As to Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush: we don’t need another Bush and we definitely don’t need another Clinton.
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The president used the first person singular—including the pronouns “I” and “me” and the adjective “my”—91 times in a speech he delivered last week in Chicago to explain his unilateral action on immigration.

But as often as Obama used “I,” “me” and “my” in Chicago last week, it was no match for the speech he delivered in Austin, Texas, on July 10, when he used the first person singular 199 times!

In that Texas speech, however, Obama had not focused specifically on immigration policy. In that speech, Obama had explained his intention to act unilaterally wherever he could.

“It is lonely, me just doing stuff,” Obama said then.

“I don’t have to run for office again, so I can just let her rip,” he said.

Actor David Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the early Star Wars movies, has revealed how he would love to have joined the original cast in the new Star Wars movie – but fears his dementia would let him down.

Talking about his health battle for the first time, the 79-year-old who played Darth Vader alongside Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher in the first three films, said: “Now I would probably forget my lines.

The Christmas lights decorating the City & County building in Denver are turned on at 6 p.m. each night beginning the day after Thanksgiving until New Year’s day and then turned on again during the National Western Stock Show and Rodeo which begins mid January in Denver.

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The tradition began in 1935 and has continued annually.

The building is illuminated by 1,000 LED spotlights and 2,000 LED rope lights.

LED lights were used for the first time in 2009.

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The unique horseshoe shape of the building, shown here, adds to the iconic beauty and mystique when the Christmas lights are turned on.
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